RVing Accessibility Group (RVAG) announced that the organization is expanding its services from providing accurate campground accessibility information, education and resources to the disabled RVing community, to include helping campgrounds improve accessibility through assessment and consulting services.

“The genesis of RVing Accessibility Group stemmed from too many bad experiences making reservations with and staying at campgrounds claiming ADA accessibility and compliance only to find out upon arrival that they were not,” said founder and Chairman Mark Douglass, who also serves as president and CEO of RVAG.

For Douglass, a disabled 20-year RV enthusiast, and his wife, Ellie, providing other disabled RV enthusiasts with accurate information on campground accessibility became paramount after his wheelchair got stuck in the mud at a compliant, but unpaved, campground.

Douglass formed a board of directors in 2011 and they created RVing Accessibilities Group, which was initially designed to educate and inform disabled travelers with first-hand assessments of campgrounds across the country found to be ADA compliant and truly accessible to guests.

During the course of 2012, however, Douglass was asked to help educate campground and park owners on accessibility.

Trained in the area of outdoor recreation accessibility and an accessibility specialist, Douglass and the organization expanded RVAG’s scope to include working with campground, park owners and camping organizations on meeting accessibility standards relative to the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 1968 Architectural Barriers Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.